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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Israeli Security Forces won't Vaccinate Occupied Palestinians, Ban Palestinian Health Worker Committees that Do

Israeli Security Forces won’t Vaccinate Occupied Palestinians, Ban Palestinian Health Worker Committees that Do

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International complains that, on the morning of June 9, Israeli forces invaded the headquarters in Ramallah of the Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Internet
How TikTok Videos are exposing Israeli repression of Palestinian Dissent

How TikTok Videos are exposing Israeli repression of Palestinian Dissent

By Shahira Tarrash and Craig Brown | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – On the weekend of May 8, TikTok was awash with videos from East […]

Waging Nonviolence

Elections
Why Iranians won’t vote: new survey reveals massive political disenchantment

Why Iranians won’t vote: new survey reveals massive political disenchantment

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki | – The Islamic Republic of Iran has never organised free and fair elections since its establishment in […]

The Conversation

Internet
Is the flood of War Atrocity Video Coarsening our Souls?

Is the flood of War Atrocity Video Coarsening our Souls?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I wanted to show my wife a picture, so I opened the photos app on my phone and promptly panicked […]

Nick Turse

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Another Tinderbox: 1,500 Palestinians in Silwan, East Jerusalem, under threat of Expulsion from Homes by Israeli Authorities

Another Tinderbox: 1,500 Palestinians in Silwan, East Jerusalem, under threat of Expulsion from Homes by Israeli Authorities

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Watan reports that the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality on Tuesday issued a letter to 13 families in Silwan near the Old […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Did Palestinians help Bring down Israel's Netanyahu, who ensured their Statelessness?

Did Palestinians help Bring down Israel’s Netanyahu, who ensured their Statelessness?

( Middle East Monitor) – How has Benjamin Netanyahu managed to serve as Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister? With a total of 15 years in office, […]

Ramzy Baroud

Islam
Muslim family killed in truck terror attack: Islamophobic violence surfaces once again in North America

Muslim family killed in truck terror attack: Islamophobic violence surfaces once again in North America

By Jasmin Zine | – A Pakistani-Canadian family out on a stroll on a warm weekend evening was murdered in a horrific act of Islamophobic […]

The Conversation

Inequality
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel | – The Secret IRS Files ( ProPublica) – Inside the Tax Records of the .001% In […]

ProPublica

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Netanyahu's Poison Pill:  Militant Squatter-Settler March through Palestinian E Jerusalem set for Tuesday after New Israeli Gov't is Installed

Netanyahu’s Poison Pill: Militant Squatter-Settler March through Palestinian E Jerusalem set for Tuesday after New Israeli Gov’t is Installed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At the insistence of outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli cabinet authorized the so-called “Flag Day” march of […]

Juan Cole

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